Cybersecurity Awareness Month (Fall Semester)

In this workshop participants will:

• Learn about our personal data, how it is collected, and its potential uses
• Reflect on how these practices impact our personal lives and society as a whole
• Discuss how we can make informed, intentional choices to safeguard our privacy

*Taught in First Year Seminar classes*

Offered in fall semester.

In this workshop participants will:

• Discuss our online presence - both our activity and "persona" 
• Learn about how our online behavior is tracked, archived, and can be retrieved in the future
• Reflect on how online behaviors can have lasting impact on our careers and personal lives

Offered in fall semester.

In this workshop participants will:

• Reflect on your digital privacy priorities
• Apply a growth mindset to critically examine your digital footprint
• Develop a Personal Data Integrity Plan

Offered in fall semester.

In this workshop participants will:

• Reflect on your digital wellness priorities
• Learn about how our digital practices impact our personal wellbeing, including relationships, mental health, & professional aspirations
• Develop a Digital Wellness Wheel to align habits & goals 

Love Data Week (Spring Semester)

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 12:15-1:15

In-person in Thun 137 or via Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/95270218608

In this workshop participants will:

• Reflect on our personal identities and our positionality within social power structures
• Explore data collection practices and the disparate impact of its use in algorithmic decision-making systems
• Examine discriminating systems across society to challenge tech power's inevitability

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 12:15-1:15pm ET. Happy Love Data Week!

In-person in Thun 138 or via Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/95270218608

In this sex-positive workshop participants will:

• Meet algorithmic matchmakers, digital lovers, and virtual friends - as well as bots, ghosts, catfish, and butchers
• Explore how consent applies to our digital (data) bodies
• Discuss the impact of technology - positive and negative - on relationships and well-being

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 12:15-1:15pm ET.

In-person in Thun 137 or via Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/95270218608

In this workshop participants will:

• Interact with generative AI to explore its possibilities and limitations
• Discuss the intellectual privacy implications of generative AI, including intellectual property considerations
• Evaluate generative AI for its impact on human agency

All workshops in the Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series by Alexandria Chisholm & Sarah Hartman-Caverly are licensed under a 

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License